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Descriptor English: Operations Research
Descriptor Spanish: Investigación Operativa
Descriptor investigación operativa
Scope note: Conjunto de técnicas desarrolladas para aplicar métodos y herramientas científicas para resolver los problemas de TOMA DE DECISIONES de organizaciones y sistemas complejos. La investigación operativa busca las soluciones óptimas en situaciones con METAS conflictivas, y utiliza modelos matemáticos de los que derivan soluciones para los problemas reales. (Traducción libre del original: Psychiatric Dictionary, 6th de)
Descriptor Portuguese: Pesquisa Operacional
Descriptor French: Recherche opérationnelle
Entry term(s): Operational Research
Research, Operational
Research, Operations
Tree number(s): H01.770.644.333
L01.906.394
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009874
Scope note: A group of techniques developed to apply scientific methods and tools to solve the problems of DECISION MAKING in complex organizations and systems. Operations research searches for optimal solutions in situations of conflicting GOALS and makes use of mathematical models from which solutions for actual problems may be derived. (From Psychiatric Dictionary, 6th ed)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 66
History Note: 66
Related: Decision Theory MeSH
Game Theory MeSH
Information Theory MeSH
DeCS ID: 10056
Unique ID: D009874
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Operations Research - Preferred
Concept UI M0015316
Scope note A group of techniques developed to apply scientific methods and tools to solve the problems of DECISION MAKING in complex organizations and systems. Operations research searches for optimal solutions in situations of conflicting GOALS and makes use of mathematical models from which solutions for actual problems may be derived. (From Psychiatric Dictionary, 6th ed)
Preferred term Operations Research
Entry term(s) Operational Research
Research, Operational
Research, Operations



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